![]() ![]() Triveni Sangham - Kumbha Mela - Allahabad January 2001, IndiaĪccording to legend, Allahabad Triveni (triple confluence) is one of the four places where the celestial bird Garuda spilled the immortality elixir Amrita from its holy pitcher, and why Hindus hold major Hindu festival - Kumbh Mela, or "Festival of pitchers."Īllahabad (Prayag also - "the confluence" or Aggra - "place of sacrifice"), located at the confluence of the Ganges with the Jumna (Yamuna), is considered the place where Brahma was brought first sacrifice after creating the world. Ganga in Indian Religion Ganga in Hinduism For more information, see: Ganga in Hindu tradition. ![]() The Bhagirathi is considered the prime source stream, fed by melting glacial snow and ice from peaks such as Kamet and Nanda Devi. Rajshahi (472,775) Khulna (855,650) Barisal (210,374) Jessore (243,987) Pabna (138,000) Chandpur (94,821) Sequence of tributary confluenceĪlaknanda joins Dhauliganga (at Vishnuprayag), Mandakini (at Nandprayag), Pindar (at Karnaprayag), Mandakini (at Rudraprayag) and ultimately Bhagirathi (at Devaprayag) from where onwards, it is known as Ganga. ![]() Specified in the list of the city are located mainly on the distributaries Hooghly and Padma (main channel) as well as numerous small ducts. Most of West Bengal and almost a third of the territory of Bangladesh enter directly into the Ganga basin. The list is sorted along the course, with the exception of the delta (in the state of West Bengal and Bangladesh). Below are the largest of the cities located directly on the river. The valley of the Ganges is one of the most densely populated places on the planet. On its banks are cremation pyres ( ghats) and ritual steps for immersing ashes in the water of dead Hindus and performed ritual ablutions. Hindus make pilgrimages to it, especially to its sources and the cities of Haridwar, Varanasi and Allahabad ( Triveni confluence of the Yamuna). The Ganges river is considered sacred to Indians since ancient times and worshiped as the Goddess Ganga. ![]() The environmental degradation generated considerable protest and in 1985 the Government implemented the Ganga Action Plan for river rejuvenation. These cities generate large amounts of domestic and industrial pollution which has caused the 'holy' Ganga to die. Important Indian cities on its banks include Kanpur, Patna, Kannauj, Kashi, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata. The Ganga river basin is India's largest, irrigating the Northern states of Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Rajasthan, Himachal Pradesh, Delhi, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Jharkhand, and West Bengal. The headstreams of the River Ganges in India's upper course are famous tourist attractions important to local economies, for spiritual tourism and Rafting in Rishikesh. Several important tributaries add their waters during this journey to make Ganga the 3rd largest river in the world by discharge volume after the Amazon and Congo rivers. Ganga, official name " Ganga/Ganges", (archaic Ganges) is a major river system in the Indian subcontinent flowing East through North India's Gangetic plains, traversing 2,525 km in the course to discharge into the Bay of Bengal through its vast delta in the Sunderbans and Bangladesh. Related_Articles, Bibliography, External_Links Mahakhali, Karnali, Kosi, Gandak, Ghaghra Haridwar, Kanpur, Allahabad, Varanasi, Kolkata Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, ![]()
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